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by belugacat 4y ago
This is also true of DRM-free files on thumbdrives. More of my friends have devices with USB ports that can run VLC than optical drives these days (not to mention the whole zone thing, which is quickly a pain when you're a movie nerd).
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by belugacat 4y ago
In some cultures the prevalent view is that employees should be grateful to their employer for providing them with a job and a paycheck, and that the needs of the business comes first and therefore the business should be free to layoff empl
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by belugacat 4y ago
A dangerous path. The act of accumulating in itself might deeply change who you are, such that by the time you've reached your original goals new mirages have clouded your eyes. If you want to do something, do it now.
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by belugacat 4y ago
> I've got an old Mac II ci that I picked up at a thrift store for $12 that came with an old version of Photoshop and an ethernet card that I keep around to remind myself of how little we've progressed. For a machine manufactu
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by belugacat 4y ago
This is all very fertile territory, it's always good to engage! I get your point about YouTube videos or Wikipedia pages being "more of the same", in a way. There's a kernel of truth to it, but I don't think that&#x
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by belugacat 4y ago
I've worked in education (as a teacher), and in edtech, trying to build such systems. I used to share some of your views and frustrations. Your post brings 2 thoughts to my mind: 1) I disagree with your characterization of "our be
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by belugacat 4y ago
I don’t see Engelbart’s work - and all other similar pioneering work that routinely gets brought up anytime HCI folks get together to wax poetic about what could be - as reminder of how much more progress lies ahead of us. In fact, most of
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by belugacat 4y ago
It is her performing talking to herself. She's as much "talking to herself" than if she had written and then performed a play about talking to herself. The computer/AI aspect of it is "just" a prop for the perf
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by belugacat 4y ago
Existing systems - especially heavily ossified ones, such as academia - are the worst at rewarding exceptional novelty as described by GP. They tend to reward conformism (exceptional conformism, sure!). If you feel like you’re reaching a gl
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by belugacat 4y ago
Some jobs birds have been forced/trained to perform through history and cultures, I'm sure I've missed a few: Fisher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormorant_fishing Hunter: https://en.wikiped
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by belugacat 4y ago
Look to the Fuji GFX 100S for the future of digital cameras. Large optics + a medium format surface area sensor at 100MP is not something phones can rival anytime soon (or perhaps even ever, given the physics at play and the form factor pho
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by belugacat 4y ago
The post referenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32880510 As the comments show, the submission had other issues.
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by belugacat 4y ago
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: “Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking care of wheat plants. It wasn't easy. Wheat demanded a lot of them. Wheat didn't li
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by belugacat 4y ago
Those are questionable parallels. Music, acting, sports, writing, etc are human practices many millenia old, recognized as such by universities, labor unions, etc. Influencing on the other hand is primarily about being an intermediary for p
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by belugacat 4y ago
> Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! One of the best animes I have ever seen. Celebrates the inherent deep joy in making , set in a low key solarpunk world. A breath of fresh air. No surprise Masaaki Yuasa was involved, his latest movie I
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by belugacat 4y ago
In the “Office Ladies” podcast (where actresses from the TV show The Office recount their days working on it), they mention the writers had a similar “candy bag” they’d put ideas in when they couldn’t work them in the episode they were work
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by belugacat 4y ago
There is nuance to all of this obviously, as with anything cultural, but in short - yes. Large swaths of the US population have been deprived of food culture for several generations now. There are many exceptions of course - Latino family b
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by belugacat 4y ago
Interesting article, but you’ll notice he adjusts his grip around 0”12 because if he had kept just shaking and gently pulling they’d still have knotted. Similarly, the initial grip is already biased a certain way. That human intuition about
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by belugacat 4y ago
As tech workers we're in a great position to move the needle a bit more towards a cooperative/worker owned model for our livelihoods and careers. That would address a lot of the problems here around the impersonality of it all, ha
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by belugacat 4y ago
> substantially true, if overly harsh That tracks with the professor being French.
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by belugacat 4y ago
I agree about the siren song aspect, and how full system simulation is very non correlated to fun, but I think it’s one of those things where we haven’t seen the full potential yet - we’re still maybe a few computational leaps away from it.
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by belugacat 4y ago
Yes, that's one thing that surprised me, as someone who mostly grew up in a large french city and then left the country altogether during my university years - I had this image of the more rural areas as being completely dead - but lik
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by belugacat 4y ago
You can click on the domain name in the post to see the few other submissions there have been; the most successful one was the Experimental Music Notation thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17166055 ).
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by belugacat 4y ago
Same as with everything in life, we never have enough time, so you get help from others, and you make sure to make time for what you want to do. I guess I won't starve if my beans don't make it, which is a nice privilege for sure.
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by belugacat 4y ago
Also French, did the same thing (albeit in the Alps rather than the south :) after being very burned out living in a tiny San Francisco apartment during Covid, post LTR breakup. Huge boost for my mental health - I can go for beautiful walks
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Scarcity and precarity in small manufacturing(llllllll.co)
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by belugacat 4y ago
Given that DALL-E is a giant matrix multiplication that correlates fuzzy concepts in text to fuzzy concepts in images, wouldn't one expect that there will be hotspots of nonsensical (to us) correlations, eg between "apoploe vesrre
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by belugacat 4y ago
The best, most concise description of AI generated content (whether textual or visual) I’ve read (I believe it was here on HN) is that “it gets to the topic, but not to the point” . In other words, while GPT, DALL-E, etc. are good at makin
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by belugacat 4y ago
There’s an argument that goes as follows: in a hunter/gatherer context, ADHD is beneficial because the natural world is so rich, an attention flitting around looking out for a potential prey hiding quietly in the trees, berries nestled
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by belugacat 5y ago
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1210489109 This is what they’re referencing

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